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At Woolworths Group, sustainability means constantly improving the ways we work to have a positive impact on our team, our planet, our customers and the communities in which we serve. In doing so, we create sustainable growth for our business and together, work to create a better tomorrow for future generations.

Our guiding principles underpin our approach to sustainability. They form the foundation of  our purpose to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow. 

1. We act like a leader and speak up on issues that matter

2. We care for, and unlock the potential of, our people

3. We have positive impact on the planet

4. We apply circular thinking in everything we do

5. We embrace the power of partnerships to create change

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Sustainability Plan 2025

 

Our Sustainability Plan 2025: Working Together to Create a Better Tomorrow highlights our ambitious goals and commitments to make a positive change across three pillars: people, planet and product.

We are no longer satisfied with limiting the negative impacts of our operations; we are actively looking to create positive change in our business and in our extended value chain, together with our partners. We see sustainability as an opportunity to create long‑term value for our shareholders through innovation that will deliver benefits for decades to come. 

Our Sustainability Plan 2025 is reviewed and adjusted as part of our annual planning cycle to maintain its relevant in a changing world. This document is version 2.0 of our Sustainability Plan 2025, effective September 2022. 

 

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Sustainability News

 

Woolworths & WIRES Food for Wildlife

The largest provider of 'free' food for native wildlife in Australia, Woolworths & WIRES Food for Wildlife supported 169 wildlife rescue organisations in F23, covering 5100 wildlife carers and 68,000 native animals including Olivia, the 60kg endangered Loggerhead Turtle rescued off the coast of Broome in November.

After great care and months of being hand-fed donated peeled king green prawns from the local Woolworths store, a healthy Olivia was returned to the sea in May and has many years of critical breeding years ahead of her.

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Welcome to our 2022 Reporting Suite

07/09/2022

Welcome to our 2022 Sustainability Reporting Suite

 

We are pleased to share with you the progress we’ve made on our ambitious sustainability goals this past year.  Our team has continued to deliver achievements across our pillars, but we know that we still have a long way to go on this journey. Thank you for joining us as we create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.

 
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Our Impact

We’re working to make positive change as we progress towards our 2025 goals and commitments.

Highlights from the 2022 financial year include:

OzHarvest working with Live Free Project to deliver food from Woolworths Kotara store in Newcastle.27th April 2021. Photograph Dallas Kilponen/Woolworths

We've contributed

$41.4M

to community

 

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We've achieved

31%

reduction in scope 1 and 2 emissions since 2015

Woolworths Paper Bags. Woolworths Rosehill Store. 6th April 2021. Photograph Dallas Kilponen

We've reduced

>10,000

tonnes virgin plastic packaging vs baseline through targeted initiatives

Our Business Accelerators

Our business accelerators help drive industry-level change towards our Sustainability Plan 2025 through strategic partnerships and investments in innovations towards mutually beneficial outcomes.  

Three business accelerators supporting our strategic priorities:

Woolworths 360
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Woolworths 360, was established to accelerate the delivery of our environmental sustainability aspirations through our unique capabilities to create solutions for a better planet. Woolworths 360 knows that these challenges cannot be solved alone, and require partnership and systemwide changes. Woolworths 360 is working across industry to deliver solutions and shape new markets, to provide solutions that are tailored to each of our business units, while simultaneously identifying solutions which may be scaled to help our suppliers and our partners reach their own sustainability ambitions.

W23
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W23 is Woolworths Group’s innovation fund. They invest in startups and scaleups that transform retail and accelerate growth, with a focus on Retail-Tech, ESG and Digital Health. 

 

W23’s investments in innovative ESG startups and scaleups (such as Sonder, All G Foods, Samsara, Great Wrap, Harvest B, Spero Foods) accelerate delivery of several people, planet and product goals and commitments in our Sustainability Plan 2025

 
healthylife
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healthylife is Woolworths Group’s holistic online health destination, offering health and wellness advice, programs, services and products to help Australians eat well, move well and feel well.

 

The healthylife Advisory Board draws upon the experience, skills and expert knowledge of a range of health professionals to ensure the information is evidence based with expert insight and guidance to bring the simple trusted way to a healthylife.  It contributes to product goal: to materially increase healthier choices in our customers’ baskets. 
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Find Out More

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Our Reports

Discover more about our sustainability journey, our progress, performance and stories
Woolworths Kotara Team member, Heather Laming collecting items off the shelves for OzHarvest. 27th April 2021. Photograph Dallas Kilponen/Woolworths
Our News

The latest news on sustainability from across our business

 
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Our Partners

We collaborate with our partners to drive transformative change and make a positive impact